#even the threesomes. even the goddamn threesomes and love trianges

[cibolasburn]

imagining vikings and more specifically ivar in the hands of steinberg and levine...... can you imagine how good he would have been. like you take the best parts of flint and silver, the nuance of the anger at the world for putting him into the role of the Other, for making HIM the monster because he has no way of following their rules. his anger at someone he loved and who accepted him being torn away from him (if steinberg and levine had been in charge aslaug wouldnt have died that way, as lagertha would be her wife #gayrights so we’re talking only about ragnar’s death bc sadly the only interesting things ragnar does is fight a dragon, and die covered in snakes). and then add silver’s fear that people’s love is conditional on his status of power, on his ruthlessness, on the thing that the only three people who ever cared for him (for he is disabled, and he relies on their love for his survival, because if they revoke it, he will be abandoned and he will die. and he knows this, his own father left him in the woods to die, and it was his mother’s love that saved him) so he must act selfishly (selfishly, even out of love). and god we would have seen him be smart, plotting and undermining and always winning tests of cunning and wisdom. we could have a wisdom contest....

instead we get oooh scary monster, oooh look he’s sexually threatening and he has no emotions and we’re going to show this in a way that is reminiscent of literal eugenics propaganda oooh scary, i hope his brother (the rightful ruler) can save everyone because ivar betrayed them all cause he’s evil and wanted to burn england cause he’s crazy oooh GOD im making myself angry again. the ivar that lives in my brain is flint and silver adjacent, and thats all that i can say